Sweetness and Light by Liam Pieper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An intoxicating, unsettling story of the battle between light and dark, love and lust, morality and corruptionIndia, monsoon season.Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual g ...Show more
This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling a ...Show more
Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend comes a moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a pandemic virus as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of peop ...Show more
The Castle on Sunset - Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairy-tale castle, the Chateau seems to come ...Show more
The Pull of the Stars (TPB) by Emma Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two o ...Show more
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Third -- and breakthrough -- novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. 'The Magician's Assistant' is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past. A magician (with o ...Show more
The Children's Train by Viola Ardone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy--written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours--about poor children from the south sent to live with families in the north to survive deprivation and the harsh winters. Though ...Show more
From Where I Fell by Susan Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'Two deep, bright, razor-sharp women at opposite ends of the earth tearing the band-aids off their souls, exposing truths and lies buried beneath marriage, motherhood and the sacrificial siege of mid-to-late-life maintenance. This is Susan Johnson at her most original, daring, bone-deep and deliciously ...Show more
It's In His Kiss (#7 Bridgertons) by Julia Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Bridgertons Ser.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Hyacinth Bridgerton, in the seventh of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. HYACINTH'S STORY Meet Our Hero . . . Gareth St. Clair is in a ...Show more
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
In a hotel room on a sleepy Pacific island, Judy Novak waits. And worries. It isn't the first time 29-year-old problem child Paulina has kept her mother waiting. But Judy can't ignore the island's jagged cliffs and towering pines - or the dread that Paulina has finally acted on her threats to take her o ...Show more
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize. A multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect. The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit w ...Show more